A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.

In this episode:

•Being back together in Barcelona at the 2021 Mobile World Congress;
•How ITU’s Digital Transformation Centres Initiative is ensuring that no one is left offline;
•Expanding financial inclusion through electronic payments;
•How digital finance may have softened the impact of COVID;
•Leading to achieve universal connectivity;
•Artificial intelligence expanding the scope of climate science;
•And… how satellites connect the unconnected by providing broadband connectivity worldwide.

Writer and presenter: Georgea Chronis -Marks
Editor-in-chief: Neil MacDonald
Producer and editor: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez